Holiday Movie Quotes
Edward 'Ned' Seton
You know, most people, including Johnny and yourself, make a big mistake about Julia. They're taken in by her looks. At bottom, she's a very dull girl and the life she pictures for herself is the life she belongs in.
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Linda Seton
You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is all right with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!
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Edward 'Ned' Seton
You're twice as attractive as Julia ever thought of being. You've got twice the looks, twice the mind and ten times the quality. You could charm a bird off a tree if you would, and why not? If you were in her way she'd ride you down like a rabbit.
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Linda Seton
Someone stop me. Oh someone please, just try and stop me!
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Edward 'Ned' Seton
You see, Father wanted a large family so Mother promptly had Linda, but Linda was a girl so Mother promptly had Julia, but Julia was a girl and the whole thing seemed hopeless. Then, the following year Mother had me. It was a boy and the fair name of Seton would flourish.
[toasting]
Edward 'Ned' Seton
Drink to Mother, Johnny. She tried to be a Seton for a while, then gave up and died.
Johnny Case
You're talking out of your hat, Ned.
Edward 'Ned' Seton
I'm not.
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Johnny Case
Anything else, sir?
Edward Seton
I beg your pardon?
Linda Seton
I should think you would.
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Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter
Don't tell anyone, but I've got a run in my stocking.
Professor Nick Potter
Good heavens, we're ruined.
[to the butler]
Professor Nick Potter
Not a word of this to a soul.
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Johnny Case
I don't call what I've been doing living.
Linda Seton
And what do you recommend for yourself, doctor?
Johnny Case
A holiday.
Linda Seton
For how long?
Johnny Case
As long as I need.
Linda Seton
You mean just to play?
Johnny Case
No. I've been working since I was 10. I want to find out why I'm working. It can't just be to pay bills and pile up more money. Even if you do, the government's going to take most of it.
Linda Seton
But what is the answer?
Johnny Case
I don't know. That's what I intend to find out. The world's changing out there. There are a lot of new, exciting ideas running around. Some may be right and some may be cockeyed but they're affecting all our lives. I want to know how I stand, where I fit in the picture, what it's all gonna mean to me. I can't find that out sitting behind some desk in an office, so as soon as I get enough money together, I'm going to knock off for a while.
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Linda Seton
You see, Case, the trouble with me is that I never could decide whether I wanted to be Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, or John L. Lewis.
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Linda Seton
What's it like to get drunk, Ned?
Edward 'Ned' Seton
Well, I... how drunk?
Linda Seton
Good and drunk!
Edward 'Ned' Seton
Oh, it's wonderful. You see, you think clear as crystal. But every move, every situation is a problem. It gets pretty interesting.
Linda Seton
You get beaten in the end, though, don't you?
Edward 'Ned' Seton
Sure, but that's okay.
Linda Seton
Where do you wind up?
Edward 'Ned' Seton
Where does anybody wind up? You die... that's okay, too.
Linda Seton
Oh, Ned! that's awful!
Edward 'Ned' Seton
Think so? Other things are worse.
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Linda Seton
[Making introductions]
My brother Ned, Mr. and Mrs. Potter. They're friends of Johnny's.
Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter
He used to live with us.
Professor Nick Potter
We've come to warn his future bride about him - he never puts the cap back on the toothpaste.
Professor Nick Potter
Mm-hmm. Then we'll drink a toast to Johnny - he *needs* it.
[fills champagne glasses]
Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter
Needs it?
Edward 'Ned' Seton
Oh. I'm wrong. He doesn't need it. Johnny's doing *all* right.
Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter
What's on your mind, Ned?
Professor Nick Potter
Nothing's on my mind.
Linda Seton
What do you mean, Johnny's doing all right?
Edward 'Ned' Seton
I mean he's doing all right. He's having a whirl. Julia's got his hair slicked down and Father's seeing that he meets the important people.
Professor Nick Potter
My word, are there important people downstairs?
Linda Seton
Oh, frightfully important. That's why I want to give a party up here.
Professor Nick Potter
[Quoting an imaginary society column]
'Miss Linda Seton - on New Year's Eve - entertained a small group of Very Unimportant People.'
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Professor Nick Potter
To our hostess.
[They all drink to Linda]
Professor Nick Potter
[Chuckles]
May I drink too ?
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Linda Seton
For the love of Pete... it's the witch and Dopey!
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Johnny Case
When I find myself in a position like this, I ask myself, what would General Motors do? And then I do the opposite!
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Edward Seton
Interesting necktie you have.
[pause]
Edward Seton
I have a haberdasher who's made my ties for many years and that pattern I seem to recognize.
Johnny Case
Perhaps, sir, because this happens to be your necktie. Ned thought it might bring me luck.
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Linda Seton
[speaking of Johnny]
But, why hasn't he a right to live part of his life as he wants to?
Edward Seton
Linda, I should like to understand what he and you are aiming at... but, I confess I cannot. I consider his whole attitude un-American.
Linda Seton
Oh, are you serious?
Edward Seton
Entirely.
Linda Seton
Well, then, he is, and he won't go to Heaven when he dies, because apparently, he can't quite believe that a life devoted to piling of money is all it's cracked up to be. Strange, isn't it? When he has us right before his eyes for such a shining example...
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Linda Seton
What is it you want, Julia? Just security? To sit smugly back in your bank vault among the worthies of the world?
Julia Seton
Well, one thing I don't want is to start this endless, aimless discussion all over again!
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Edward 'Ned' Seton
Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.
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Downstairs Butler Admitting Johnny
I beg your pardon?
Johnny Case
Er, I just said Judas. It didn't mean anything.
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Johnny Case
I want to save part of my life for myself. There's a catch to it, though. It's gotta be part of the young part. You know, retire young, work old, come back and work when I know what I'm working for. Does that make any sense?
Linda Seton
That makes a lot of sense. Does Julia know?
Johnny Case
No, I don't want to raise her hopes until I get enough money together.
Linda Seton
Oh, she has enough for two right now, or ten for that matter.
Johnny Case
No, that's out. I don't want her dough. I want to earn it myself.
Linda Seton
That's foolish. You're alright, though, Case. You haven't been bitten yet. You haven't been caught by it.
Johnny Case
By what?
Linda Seton
The reverence for riches. Look out for that, Johnny.
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Linda Seton
Well, well, let's ring bells! Let's send up skyrockets!... Well, let's turn on all the lights in the house.
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Mrs. Laura Cram
I've never been up here before. It's awfully quaint, isn't it?
Linda Seton
We like it.
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Linda Seton
There are a lot of humorous little episodes. I tried to get Father to let me take a nursing course at a hospital. Oh yes, and I almost got arrested trying to help some strikers over in Jersey. Well how was I to know that Father was on the board of directors at the company? You see, Case, the trouble with me is I never could decide whether I wanted to be Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, or John L. Lewis.
Johnny Case
What's the matter? You fed up?
Linda Seton
To the neck.
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Dorothy
Did you have an accident, Ned?
Edward 'Ned' Seton
Apparently. I don't seem to have been there when it happened.
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Linda Seton
You mean to say your mother wasn't even a whoozis?
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Edward 'Ned' Seton
Did I get home alright last night?
Downstairs Butler Admitting Johnny
Everything is perfectly alright, sir.
Edward 'Ned' Seton
How did I get this bump on my forehead?
Downstairs Butler Admitting Johnny
You slipped once or twice, sir, in your bathroom.
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Professor Nick Potter
[referring to the massive Seton home]
You know, this reminds me a little of the palace of Caligula. You remember Caligula, don't you, dear?
Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter
Oh, very well indeed. Whatever became of him?
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Linda Seton
What's the use of having all this jack around if it can't get us a superior kind of man?
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Linda Seton
This was Mother's idea. She thought there ought to be one room in the house where people could come and have some fun. She used to be up here as much as we were before she died. I think it was kind of an escape for her. She was marvelous.
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Linda Seton
Compared to the life I lead, the last man in a chain gang thoroughly enjoys himself.
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Johnny Case
[to Linda]
You poor thing. They won't let you have any fun, and they won't let you have any time to think.
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Professor Nick Potter
Congratulations, Miss Seton. You're not getting very much, but I'm sure you can improve him.
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Linda Seton
It'll be a pity if this doesn't come off, it'll be a real pity.
[looks down]
Linda Seton
Yes, it'll be a pity if this doesn't come off, too.
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Professor Nick Potter
What light through yonder window breaks?... . Aaahhh. ha ha ha ha!
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